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It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws. -- Aristotle
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. -- Henry Alle
It is better for one's reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
-- John Maynard Kyene...
It is better never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
-- Sophocles (496-406 BC) -- Peleus, Frag. 445...
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
-- Sir William Blackstone (1723-80.)...
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead the rest of your life. -- Italian Proverb
It is better to be a has-been than one who never was.
It is better to be always on your guard than to suffer once.

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